I am currently reading the book Frederica by Georgette Heyer. It's set 1818 and the characters have some wonderful names, so I thought I could start a thread were we post the names of the characters in whichever book we're reading at the minute and comment on them.

FemalesAugusta - I've never liked any of the 'August' names.Charis - Absolutely beautiful, I love it. My current 'name crush'.
Chloë - A nice name, overused now, but it would have been very interesting at the time.Elizabeth "Eliza" - I love Elizabeth, but Eliza isn't my favourite form.Frederica - Beautiful. :) I love Frederick too.Jane - Lovely, simple and sweet.Louisa - Don't love it, but it's a nice enough name. I might like it more if it didn't remind me of a whiny girl I went to school with.Seraphina - Nice, but I don't love it either.

MalesCarlton - NMS at all. Charles - Lovely and handsome.Darcy - LOVE, LOVE, LOVE!Endymion - Handsome, works well in the novel, but I can't really see it as a name in real life.Felix - See Darcy. :)Harry - Lovely but overused at the minute. I prefer Henry.Jessamy - It's nice but I can't quite make up my mind about it. I imagine it would be presumed to be a girl's name today.Vernon - Ugh. And this is the romantic lead male. Thankfully he's a marquis and goes by his title Alverstoke almost all of of the time.

April 10th, 2013, 06:01 PM

maggiefromcanada

Well, I'm currently reading a non-fiction book called Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Can't Stop Talking by SusanCain. One of the people she interviewed is mentioned as having a wife named Celerie. I read that today and my first thought was: "Must check that on Nameberry!" Someone really shares a name with celery??

April 10th, 2013, 06:24 PM

hanniekitt

Celerie? That's... quite a name. I can sort of see the appeal, but who wants to be named after a vegetable?

April 10th, 2013, 06:29 PM

philippahd

I just read The Fault In Our Stars by JohnGreen (again! it's amazing) and the 2 main characters are Hazel & Augustus! I haven't read any other JohnGreen books yet but I know he uses the name Margot in another book and his own son is called HenryAtticus, I think. He has good naming taste!

April 10th, 2013, 06:32 PM

daisy451

Nude Walker by Bathsheba Monk- Kat, Max, Duck, Barbara, Jenna, Krista, Houda, and Wind. For the most part, the characters have names that make sense, which I think is important. Barbara is a Pennsylvanian in her 60s, Jenna her 20s, Wind is Native American, and Houda is Lebanese-American. It puts me off if a novel is meant to be realism and there's a 40-year-old Nevaeh or something like that. The name I think should reflect the character's place in the story, but also the background that the character is given (including time period and age.)